Let’s talk about Eastern Peak – the ski motion picture

Eastern Peak—Freeride skiing in Kosovo—what’s that all about? Every year new ski films are made, independently or supported by the ski industry. Endless mountains, endless powder, endless sun. To be honest, ski films tend to look the same. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, right?

Well, here is a tip. Go watch Eastern Peak. A new release about backcountry skiing in the Balkans. This thirty-three-minute-long ski film is different from the glossy ones you are used to.

Initiated by skitrotters own power freerider Christopher Henning, who got the idea when flying over the Dinaride mountains on his way on a sun trip to Albania.

Last winter Christopher teamed up with snowboarder Cody Bramwell and freeskier Emil Granbom. The shred gang traveled to Kosovo together with a two-man film crew to check out what the Balkans could offer in terms of shreddable terrain. It’s all summed up in the newly released motion picture Eastern Peak.

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Eastern Peak is unpolished, but so is skiing in Kosovo

Don’t get me wrong. A great effort is behind the production, and there is some support from the ski industry. The film is well planned and executed. Still.

This film will surprise you.

But not the gang’s skiing abilities. They are world-renowned. You will be surprised about how honest the film is and how unpolished but at the same time perfect the whole edit is. You will be surprised to find out that there are such endless mountains still untouched by skiers in the center of Europe.

Isak Fredriksson, the man behind the camera and editor, was until now totally unknown in the ski business. As a fact, his whole life’s ski days could be counted on two hands before last winter. Now he has turned into a mountain goat. On his side, the Åre local photographer and skier Klas Hagelbeck.

Eastern Peak catches the true soul of freeride like a documentary

In the same time, the film wakes the lust in your inner skier. Feeling that you are in the scene yourself. The riders, as well as the team at Lynx Freeride, invite the viewer into their unglamorous lives as professional skiers. Freeride, free souls. Far from ordinary. It will surprise me if this is the last film with this crew.

How to watch it?

Eastern Peak just had its world premiere in Sweden’s ski capital, Åre. Next stop will be Stockholm in November, and then it will travel to Lund in the south of Sweden. Check the riders SoMe for updates on where and when. Sooner or later it will be on the internet.

Take my advice and go see it when it is on display; it will be an opportunity to meet others longing for a free soul. Until then, you can always watch the trailer here:

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